Fun Bearing Torut

Author: GSLC

Now it happened that there was a mining camp in Colorado where more than an average numberof the miners were bald. An enterprising hair tonic salesman from Kentucky decided to takeadvantage of this golden opportunity, so he made the trip north. It was a rainy summer evening.The salesman was headed towards the mining camp with four bottles of hair tonic under his arm.As he was crossing one of the trout streams, which lead to the Arkansas River, the salesmanslipped and dropped two bottles of hair tonic into the water. The bottles broke, and the hair tonicspilled into the stream.

Not too long after this incident, the fishermen along the Arkansas developeda new method for catching trout. They’d head to the bank of the rivercarrying a red and white barber pole and some scissors. Then they would setup the barber pole and call out: “Get your free shave and a hair cut here.”All the trout whose fur had grown too long or who needed their beardstrimmed would hop right out of the water and be picked up by the fishermen.It wasn’t until the mills began muddying the waters so much that the fishcouldn’t see the barber poles that the practice died out.